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Apparatus for Stamping Embroidery Patterns. No. 160,113 Patented Feb.23,1875.

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iTNrrED STATES PATENT rrroni;

JOHN MGGAVIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ISAAU'S. VAN DEUSEN, OFPASSAIG, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR STAMPING EMBROIDERY PATTERNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,113, dated February23, 1875; application filed December 12, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MQGAVIN, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Transferring Designs,of which the following is a specification The object of my invention isto provide more efficient means than any now used for transferringdesigns of perforated paper or metal patterns to cloth.

The essential feature of the invention consists of a rotary andtraversing brush for printing the patterns on the cloth through theperforations of the pattern sheet or plate; also, mechanism forrevolving it, and at the same time moving it over the pattern and thecloth; and also a carriage for the roller, and the operating mechanism,combined with the pattern and cloth-holding table.

Another feature of the invention is the table for holding the patternand the cloth, provided with adjusting-supports, having inclines bywhich the table can be raised readily from time to time, as the clothsto be printed (of which a number are put together, one above another)are removed; and another feature consists of an extension-table forholding long or short cloths; also, an extensionframe for long or shortpatterns, and contrivances for detachably fastening and unfastening thepatterns and the cloths readily.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a plan withthe pattern and pattern-holder removed. Fig. 3 is a longitudinalsectional elevation taken on the line a; a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 4. is atransverse section taken on the line y y of Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 is adetail of the pattern-holding frame in section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is a long table or bench, on which is a patternholding frame, B, whichis preferably hinged at one side of the bench, and has the pattern plateor sheet 0 stretched on it, the

said pattern, when made of paper or other equivalent material, beingdetachably fastened to it by being pressed down and wedged into thegrooves in the upper side of the frame by the bars or rods D. At one endthe patterns are connected to a cross-bar, E, which slides along theframe in grooves F for short or long patterns and cloths, and the barcarries spring-catches G to fasten it anywhere in the rack-bars H.

The table whereon the cloths J rest is composed of loose boards I tomake it long or short, which rest on the bars K within the frame B, andimmediately under the pattern. These bars rest by their inclines L onreverse inclines M of sliding bars N, which are adjustable forward andbackward by a screw, 0, for varying the height of the table.

The cloths are stretched between the ends of the table and secured bythe cams Q, which press them against the table ends, and they arestretched the other Way by pins P rising up from the ends of the boardsof the table.

It is the rotary brush for printing the de signs through theperforations. It is mounted on the carriage S, which moves along thebench, from end to end, on the grooved roller T, and is geared by thewheel U with the pinion V of the crank-shaft W, which, by said pinionand by another one, X, gears with the table by racks Y, so that by theturning of the crank the brush is both revolved to print the designs andmoved along over the pattern.

One movement of the brush over the table is sufficient for transferringthe design to each piece of cloth, so that it moves in reversedirections each time.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. The combination of a revolving and traversing brushwith the pattern sheet or plate, and a table for holding the cloth to beprinted, substantially as specified.

2. The revolving brush on a traversing table, geared with a crank-shaft,itself geared with the rack on table, to impart both the rotary and thetraversing motion to the brush, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of the fasteningbars D with the patternsheet and thepatternframe, the latter having grooves to receive said bars to fastenthe pattern-sheet, substan tially as specified.

4. The sliding bar E and spring-fasteners G, in combination with thepattern-frame and rack-bars H on the latter, substantially as specified.

5. The cams Q on the patternfmme, combined with the cloth-table I,substantially as specified.

6. The cloth-table I arranged adjustably toward and from thepattern-frame, substantially as specified.

JOHN MCGAVIN. Witnesses:

T. B. MOSHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

